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¶ The Vertues.
Dioscorides writeth that the ripe seed gathered and dried in the shadow, and drunke vnto the [ A] quantitie of one dram weight, fortie daies together, doth waste and consume away the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the spleene, remoueth wearisomnesse, helpeth the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and difficultie of breathing, cureth the hicket, procureth bloudie vrine after the sixt day, and causeth women to haue speedie trauell in childe bearing.
The leaues be of the same force: which being drunk thirty daies together, are reported to make [ B] men barren, and destroy their naturall seed.
The floures steeped in oile and set in the Sun, is good to annoint the bodie that is benummed, [ C] and growne verie cold.
The distilled water of the floures are giuen to be drunke with good successe against the pissing [ D] of bloud.
A syrrup made of the floures is good to be drunke against the diseases of the lungs and spleene [ E] that is stopped, being drunke with a little wine.
Notwithstanding the words of Galen (or rather of 〈◊〉〈◊〉) it is certainely found by experi∣ence, [ F] that the water of Honisuckles is good against the sorenesse of the throte and uvula: and with the same leaues boiled, or the leaues and floures distilled, are made diuers good medicines against cankers, and sore mouths, as well in children as elder people, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vlcerations and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the priuie parts of man or woman; if there be added to the decoction hereof some allome or Verdigreace, if the sore require greater clensing outwardly, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 alwaies that there be no Verdigreace put into the water that must be iniected into the secret parts.